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Understanding the Role of Affordable Housing Policy

CM | 1.25

Date: Sunday, April 14

Begins: 9:45AM

Ends: 11:00AM

Activity Code: S453

Room: Columbus Hall K/L

Track: Research Day

Affordable housing policies greatly impact communities, often in ways that aren’t immediately obvious. This session presents the results of federally sponsored research on affordable housing. Find out how California’s Housing Element Law has influenced subsidized housing construction within the Los Angeles and Sacramento regions. Learn how Oakland’s urban environment influences the academic achievement of children in low- and moderate-income families. Understand what planners need to know to make affordable housing policies work to the benefit of their communities.

Work: I am a recently minted Ph.D. currently serving as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at Dillard University, an HBCU located in New Orleans, LA.

Education: Ph.D. in Urban Studies, University of New Orleans; M.A. in Student Personnel Administration, Teachers College; B.A. in Education, Louisiana State University

Past Assignments: Race, class, and housing at Stanford University; Black Community Services Center’s Intellectual Roundtable. (November 2012). Resident retention vs. social capital: examining conflicting interests in a mixed-income community at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning National Conference in Cincinnati, OH. (November 2012). Dogs and the city: mechanisms for inclusion/exclusion in socially-mixed urban neighborhoods at the Urban Affairs Association National Conference in Pittsburgh, PA. (April 2012). Examining social relations in a mixed-income community at the Urban Affairs Association National Conference in New Orleans, LA. (March 2011).

Carrie L. MakarewiczAssistant Professor, Univ of Colorado Denver

Work: Ms. Makarewicz is a doctoral candidate and researcher in City & Regional Planning at UC, Berkeley. Her dissertation examines the relationship between the urban environment and parents time, energy and resources for engagement with their children's learning. She is on a research team studying travel and residential mobility in the Bay Area. She has worked on TOD, suburban revitalization and energy efficiency as a researcher and planner with CNT in Chicago and the Center for TOD, and as a planner with the City of Chicago.

Education: She earned a BBA from the University of Michigan in 1994, a MUPP from the University of Illinois-Chicago in 2001, and expects to finish her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley in May 2013.

Publications: Haas, P., C. Makarewicz, A. Benedict, and S. Bernstein. “Estimating Transportation Costs for Households by the Characteristics of the Neighborhood and Household.” Transportation Research Record, 2009. Makarewicz, Carrie. “Vouchers, magnets, and charters: analyzing the effects of school and housing choices on the mode choice to school.” forthcoming. Center for Transit-Oriented Development. The Affordability Index: A New Tool for Measuring the True Affordability of a Housing Choice. Washington DC: Brookings Institution’s Urban Markets Initiative, 2006.